A/N: I wasn't planning on updating so soon, but I got some great reviews so I decided to go for it. I can tell that everyone really likes the story. Plus, I saw that there was another story on this site with an oddly similar plot. Hmmm, don't know what to think or do about that. All I know is please please please don't steal my ideas people. It's just mean.

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Chapter 3- The Party

"Hey Aunt Maxie, what's up?" asked Michael as he walked into Maxie's bedroom.

"Haven't you ever heard of knocking? God, you are just like your mother" Maxie said with a smile.

"Hey, be nice" Michael said with a smile. "So, where are you off to dressed like that? I don't think Dad and Jason are going to like that too much" he said as he motioned towards her outfit.

"I am going…out" she said. "Alright, now leave. Buh-bye squirt" she said, calling him by the affectionate nickname she had given him when they first met.

"Out where? You know, I can just ask dad" said Michael when all he got was silence in return for his first question.

"Michael! You can't do that" said Maxie. "Come on" she begged.

"I feel that it is my moral obligation to let Dad know just where his sister is off to"

"Michael, I am the aunt here" she said.

"Barely. You're more like an annoying older sister"

"Maybe so, but I am older. And I'm telling you right now that you better keep your mouth shut if you want to make it to the eleventh grade!"

"Aunt Maxie, I am doing this for your safety" Michael said with a smirk on his face.

"What do you want in exchange for keeping your mouth shut?" she asked.

"I cover for you, you cover for me" he said, his arms folded over his chest.

"When?" she asked.

"Next Friday night"

"Fine" she said. "But don't come home drunk Friday, 'cause I'm not covering that up
she warned.

"Fine" Michael agreed as she two shook hands.

With Michael causing a distraction, Maxie was able to slip out of the penthouse and make it to her car. Getting to the party was no problem and Jesse was no where in sight.

"Maybe I got away with this one" she said out loud with a huge smile on her face.

At the party, Maxie immediately found Georgie and Dillon. The two were perched on a couch, making out like there was no tomorrow.

"Get a room" she called as she walked up to them.

"And hello to you too" said a disappointed Dillon as he pulled away from his girlfriend. "What's up Maxie?" he asked.

"Nothing much. You two seem to be enjoying yourselves" she said as she sat down on the couch next to Georgie.

"We were. And then you came along" Dillon mumbled.

"Dillon!" Georgie scolded. "We are so glad that you made it" she said. "But where's the guard dog, Jesse?"

"I ditched him" she said proudly.

"How? That guy is like a cheetah. Or a lion. Or some sort of wildcat. He basically hunts you. You can't make it out of that guy's sight" Dillon said.

"Anyway" said Maxie, shaking her head at Dillon. "I got Michael to cover for me and to cause a distraction. So, I think I will be spending the night Jesse-free. Now, I will leave you two to sucking off each other's respective faces. I am here to flirt, and dance, and have a good time. Not to play third wheel, so don't worry" she said as she left Georgie and Dillon who automatically started making out with one another again once she was gone.

Maxie spent the night doing just as she said she would. She danced with Todd, Andrew, Jake, Chris, Steven, Bobby, and Paul. She planned on being all over that night, and she was. Maxie hardly gave anything a thought that night. And the fact that she wasn't thinking clearly was what was going to get her into trouble. And lots of it.

"Michael, have you seen Maxie?" asked Sonny as he poked his head into his teenage son's room.

"Yeah. She said she had a headache and was lying down in her room" said Michael.

Sonny walked over to Courtney and Jason's penthouse and smiled at the scene that he saw. Jason sat on the couch with Courtney's head lying on his lap. She had a book of baby names open and was reading aloud from it, the two laughing at some of the ridiculous name.

"Hello Morgans" said Sonny as he walked into the penthouse.

"Hey Sonny" said Courtney from her spot on the couch, her pregnant belly sticking up in the air.

"Hey Sonny, what would you think of naming our child Tree?" asked Jason with a smile.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Sonny asked them with a mischievous smile.

"Does it matter?" asked Courtney with a huge smile.

"I am officially saying that Carly, Maxie, and I all get a say in what this baby is named. We're taking veto power"

"In all fairness Sonny, we really don't plan on naming our kid Tree" said Courtney.

"I trust you. Just not that much"

"Gee thanks Sonny" said Jason with a smile still on his face as he massaged Courtney's head with one hand and her stomach with his other.

"Anyway, I came over to talk to Maxie. Michael said she was here" said Sonny.

"Really? We haven't seen her" said Courtney.

"Maybe she's asleep" offered Jason.

"That's what Michael said. Something about a headache. I'm going to go check on her, ok?" he asked.

"Sure, go ahead" said Courtney as she motioned up the stairs while she and Jason got back to the baby names.

Sonny tentatively knocked on Maxie's door, not really expecting an answer. When he saw that she in fact was not answering, he pushed open the door a crack and saw her lying down on the bed in the completely dark room with the covers pulled back over her head. Sonny was about to leave, but then he changed his mind. She could be really sick and have a fever or something. Walking over to the bed, he sat down on the edge and pulled down the covers a little so that he could get to her forehead.
Downstairs, Courtney and Jason were still laughing over the names. But their laughter was soon disrupted as Sonny's voice came from upstairs.

"MAXIE!"

Maxie first spotted him from across the room, and she could automatically tell that she spotted him too. Giving him her most flirtatious smile, the guy smiled back and walked over to where she was standing.

"Hi" he said, giving her a once over.

"Hi" she answered back.

"I'm Billy" the guy said as he introduced himself.

"Maxie" she said, flipping her hair back.

"Can I get you a drink, Maxie?" he asked her, drawing out her name as he said it.

"That would be nice, Billy" she said, drawing out his name as well.

Billy walked away for a moment and soon returned two beers in his hand. He opened one and handed it to Maxie, and he opened the other one for himself.

"So, you go to school around here?" he asked her.

"I start PCU in the fall" she answered. "You?"

"I go to NYU. But Port Charles is where I grew up" he answered her.

"I just moved to Port Charles a few years ago. I grew up in Atlantic City" she told him.

"New York City?" he asked her over the loud music.

"No, Atlantic City" she corrected.

"It's really hard to hear you. You wanna go someplace quieter and talk?" he asked her.

Maxie hesitated for a moment, biting down on her bottom lip, before she finally nodded and took his hand, letting Billy lead her away.

"She snuck away! You thought she was here too!" said Jesse as he stood his ground.

Sonny and Jason had sat him down and were now both menacingly staring at him. "Look, I mean no disrespect, but I'm out of here" he said as he started to stand up

"Where the hell do you think you're going?" he called after Jesse as the lowly guard started to walk away.

"I'm going to find Maxie and bring her home safe and sound" said Jesse as he walked out of the room, leaving a speechless Sonny and Jason behind.

Jesse checked all of the places that he knew Maxie usually went to. But he couldn't find her, or any of her friends. He took a deep breath as he continued to look for her. Maxie was infuriating, there was no questioning that. But she was beautiful as well. Jesse couldn't help but let his eyes linger on her for too long sometimes. But she was a selfish bratty teenager, and although Jesse was attracted to her physically, he refused to let himself feel anything more. Besides, he had a job to do. Jesse continued to walk when he came across a few teenage boys, smoking and drinking. Sizing them up, he grabbed one of them and threw him against the wall.

"Where's everyone tonight? Hmm, where's the party taking place" he asked as he growled at the kid.

"I don't know" the kid croaked out as his friends looked on fear.

Jesse scoffed and then tightened his grip on the kid.

"I'm not going to ask you again" he barked.

Billy led Maxie upstairs to one of the bedrooms. Although she was sort of uncomfortable, she sat down on the bed with him anyway.

"So, you having a good time?" he asked her, and for the first time, Maxie could smell the alcohol on his breath.

"Ah, yeah" she said. "Look, maybe we should go downstairs, you know, with everyone else"

"Why baby? We have the whole room to ourselves. We have some privacy" he whispered in her ear as he started to kiss her neck.

Maxie attempted to push him off of her but he only kissed her harder. He pushed her down so that she was lying on the bed and he pinned her arms above her head.

"Get off of me!" she demanded.

"Come on baby, you know you want me" Billy said as he started to kiss her lips, despite her fighting.

She bit him hard enough to draw blood and he slapped her across the face before kissing her again, but even harder. Maxie was stuck, and she knew it. She was really scared so she closed her eyes. Suddenly, she felt Billy being pulled off of her before a loud sound like a punch was heard and Billy grunted. Opening her eyes, Maxie saw Jesse punching Billy over and over again as the boy grunted and fell to the ground.

"If you ever touch Maxie again, you're dead. Better yet, if you ever look at her again, you're dead" he warned.

"Oh my god, Jesse, thank god" she said as she started to cry.

"Shh, it's ok" he said as he sat down on the bed and without thinking just wrapped his arms around her.

It was hurting him to see her cry, and he just wanted to get her out of there. Scooping her up in his arms, he held her tightly and walked downstairs with her.

"Oh my god, Maxie!" cried Georgie as she ran over to them after seeing Jesse carry her down the stairs.

"She's ok" Jesse assured her. "Just a little shaken up"

"What happened?" asked Dillon.

"Some guy got a little too touchy" said Jesse. "But she's ok now. I took care of it" he assured them as he walked out of the house and into his car, putting Maxie in the passenger side.

Jesse held her hand the whole way back to the towers. He didn't know what it was, but for some reason he needed to comfort her. He needed to make sure that she was ok. And Maxie didn't know what it was, but having Jesse's hand on hers made it all better. Having him close and having him take care of her made all of the fear and embarrassment go away. Jesse carried her back into the penthouse, brushing past Max who went to call Courtney, Carly, Sonny, or Jason, knowing that whichever one he could reach would be needed there immediately. Jesse put Maxie down on the couch and continued to hold her in his arms.

"It's ok" he soothed.

"Yeah, all thanks to you" she said as she picked her head up off his chest and looked into his eyes. "I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't shown up. You are officially my knight in shining armor" she declared.

"That's a big responsibility, you think I can handle it?" he asked her with a smile as he tenderly wiped her tears away.

"I think you can handle it" she answered with a big smile of her own. "I was so scared" she admitted softly, her smile fading.

"You wanna know a secret?" he asked her softly. "I was too. When I saw him on you, I don't know what happened, but I was suddenly overtaken with fear. Fear that something terrible would happen to you" he said as he brushed some of her hair back.

"I'm ok" she assured him.

"Yeah, you are" he said.

They were both quiet for a moment as they just stared into each other's eyes. They slowly leaned in, and both of them closed their eyes. Their lips were millimeters apart when they were disturbed by the banging of the front door. Maxie jumped off Jesse so quickly that it was as though she was given an electric shock.

"Maxie, oh thank god you're ok" gushed Courtney as she ran over to her baby sister and embraced her, leaving the teenage blonde to stare at her guard through wide eyes as he stared back, longing in his eyes.

A/N: Ta-da! They are getting closer and closer to each other! Now, I have some terrible news. School is starting for me in just a few days. It sucks. I've been having actual nightmares about it. And this is my big year. I have to take the SATs, and the ACTs, and the PSATs, and the SATIIs, and 3 AP tests. I have a full schedule of 8 intense classes. It's going to be a fun year. So, if it takes a while to update, please don't hunt me down and eat me. And, if there is a very long time for an update, keep in mind that I probably flung myself off of a building from all the stress and the fact that I hate school! Just kidding. But you can all feel free to protest me going to school. Write to my principal and tell her that I need to focus on my fanfiction! I would love that. I don't see it happening any time soon, but it would be beyond awesome. Anyway, I've babbled enough, so go review as I go cry and decide what color binders I want this year (sob).